‘Rains Over Babel’ Review: This Tropical, Queer Riff on Dante’s Inferno Is a Dazzling, Daring Provocation
Rains Over Babel,' a queer riff on Dante's Inferno, announces director Gala del Sol as a talent of international cinema.
Wall Street Journal12d
‘Dante’s Divine Comedy’ Review: Enduring Visions of the Afterlife
Not everyone in the 14th century was charmed by the poem’s novelty or by Dante’s creative use of tradition in its three-part ...
AOL10d
‘Rains Over Babel’ Review: This Tropical, Queer Riff on Dante’s Inferno Is a Dazzling, Daring Provocation
A playful riff on Dante’s “Inferno,” the film is set in a fantastical retrofuturist vision of Cali, Colombia. The tropical city, here reimagined as Purgatory through the lens of queer joy ...
The New Yorker2d
The Poet Shane McCrae Goes Back to Hell
McCrae’s work obsessively retreads paths through Heaven, history, and eternal torment. What can we learn from his relentless ...
Roger Ebert6d
Sundance 2025: Mad Bills to Pay, Rains Over Babel, Serious People
Juan Collado appears in Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) by Joel Alfonso Vargas, an official selection of ...
Screen International6d
‘Rains Over Babel’: Rotterdam Review
Decadent interpretation of Dante’s Inferno plays out in a pop punk Colombian nightclub ...
The Daily Californian2d
Sundance Dispatch #4: The middleweights
On Dec. 19, 1974, experimental novelist and bastion of the New York arts scene Linda Rosenkrantz invited famed photographer ...